Webb, Rose Mary

First impressions are prominent in our everyday interactions. The way that we perceive others, even if based only on physical appearance, can influence future interactions. The strength of first impressions has been demonstrated through interrater co...

Previous research examining gender biases in a hiring context shows that female candidates tend to be rated more negatively than equally-qualified male candidates. This effect is not consistent across all studies, which causes the role of gender bias...

The Unskilled-and-Unaware Problem (UUP) describes the phenomenon where poor performers tend to overestimate their abilities while high performers underestimate theirs. Dunning (2011) argues that the misestimations of low and high performers result fr...

This study aimed to investigate the effect of normative information and time to reflect on obedience to authority. We sought to extend Milgram’s paradigm to investigate people’s willingness to inflict psychological pain on others by using a Cyberball...

Most personality assessments rely on self-report, but the Realistic Accuracy Model (RAM) proposes that personality may be accurately perceived by others. The strongest reporters of a target's personality besides the target themselves are knowledgeabl...

Research has suggested that personality traits are detectable purely from the linguistic features of social media posts (Park et al., 2014) and text messages (Hood, Silio, & Webb, 2015; Udry, Rhoades & Webb, 2016). However, there may be individual di...